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Saudi-Qatar: Following several high-level meetings between Saudi Arabia and Qatar in mid-2008, both sides agreed to the delimitation of maritime borders between their countries and beyond the Khor Al-Udeid inlet (in the far south of Qatar). The minutes of the meeting of

Senior United States Department of Defence officials have criticised the defence industry for inadequate quality control on missile defence programmes, saying the administration planned to use more fixed-price contracts.

Despite the US company’s $170m deal with the UAE, European firms are proving increasingly strong competition for air-launched missile systems contracts

A rise in crimes such as carjacking, mugging and harassment, and continued warnings of a possible terrorist attack as AQAP regroups, are testing the international security community

The government on 27 February declared a state of emergency in the southern province of Al-Dhalee,

The US State Department’s report highlights three sets of arrests over the past six months:

President Barack Obama has committed the US to providing more assistance to the Sanaa government, but such promises carry real risks, especially when the donor has so little confidence in the recipient

As the international community debates its next steps on Iran’s nuclear programme, Washington has made a show of increasing its commitment to missile defence in the Gulf

The United States’ announcement of the deployment of missile defence systems in Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) states signals a tougher tone towards Iran rather than any major new military initiative in the region. Many elements of the system are already in the Gulf, including US Navy

Dubai has responded strongly to the 20 January killing in the Al-Bustan Rotana Hotel of Hamas official Mahmud Al-Mabhuh.

US security assistance to Yemen has been patchy over the last half decade, reflecting the ebb and flow of the US-Yemeni relationship. All the usual tools of US security assistance

United States policy on Iran is little clearer than it was the day President Barack Obama took office, according to GSN’s soundings among US diplomats and Central Command (Centcom) planners. Central tenets of policy, the means and ends, continue to be blown around by the storm of events in the Islamic Republic. And engagement has been thrown decisively off course by Iran’s festering domestic political crisis.

The division of responsibilities between Iran’s naval forces, outlined in a new report, will frustrate enemy attacks but not change the outcome of any future conflict with the United States

In the division of labour between the regular Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN) and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN), the principles of decentralisation

Yemen’s little-noticed southern unrest has finally gained some serious recognition with the 15 December publication of a Human Rights Watch report into the brutal reaction of state security services to the mostly peaceful southern protests. The report – In the Name of Unity: The Yemeni Government’s Brutal Response to Southern Movement Protests – documents the heavy-handed suppression of the Southern Movement (Al-Thawra Al-Janoubi) coalition.